Posted on 02/02/2007 8:08:36 AM PST by dleecomeback07
How about some predictions not only on Score but how the game will go?
And Identify whether or not you're a huge fan of either team or just a regular football fan.
Me Bears fan since birth. My oldest's middle name is Payton. Not PEyton but PAyton.
Bears 31 Colts 28.
Bears keep Peyton off the field with solid running game. Grossman is steady but not spectacular just like he was against the Saints. Doesn't turn the ball over, overall stats nothing to write home about but he makes the plays and passes when he needs to. Defense or Special Teams makes 1 TD. Rex throws for one. Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson each run for 1.
Manning still has good game the Bears beat the Colts D. The main reason Manning doesn't win is the Bears relying heavily on the run keeping him off the field.
Time of Posession winds up being key to victory along with no turnovers.
Urhlacher is the best player in the NFL. EVERY coach in the league would jump at the chance to have him no the team. In NO way is he overrated.
Best player in the NFL? that's what I mean. He is a very good linebacker but to call him the best player in the NFL? He won't even be the best player on the field on Sunday.
He is the face of the Bears D and that's why he's so popular. The Bears D works best as a unit--no talent jumps out at me but they do well for themselves. In fact you can say the same thing about the Bears O. they are greater than the sum of their parts.
Months after winning the Defensive Player of the Year award this crap about being overrated started. It would be funny if it were not so pathetic being directed at a perennial All Pro and has made the Pro Bowl every year after his rookie except 04 when he missed half the season. The season he was hurt the Bears defense fell apart.
Urhlacher is faster than most running backs and many receivers and hits like a truck. He is often called to cover receivers and does a great job. He will wreck havoc Sunday just watch.
He is popular in Chicago because we loves our middle linebackers and he reminds us of our greatest ones.
Low-scoring first half, as both teams shake off the deer-in-the-headlights looks. 10-7 at the break.
Bears defense gets at least 2 turnovers, leaving the Colts with maybe 5 other drives. The Colts "only" score on 4 of them.
da Bears' special teams give Rex solid field position all day long... which actually takes away from his greatest strength - the 30-yd pass. The Colts contain the Bears to FG's for most of the Bears drives that start in Colts' territory.
At least one TD is scored by the Bears' without their offense on the field.
The Bears shut down the running game of the Colts... putting the game squarely into Manning's hands. (Yet the Colts keep trying the stretch play anyway, for far too many plays.)
The Bears convert at least two FOURTH down plays. The Colts have converted ZERO for the year (tying the NFL record, obviously). The Colts have given up 4th down conversions on 14 of 18 fourth down plays... that's 78%.
Lovie Smith will have the Bears run and run and run, no matter the score, and will only give Rex the ball when the Colts aren't expecting it. Look for two long passes on 3rd-and-short.
If the Colts DE's use their speed rush to the outside, the Bears' backs go for 70-90 yds each. (They leave two DT's against 3 linemen, possibly a TE, and the running back when they do that!) The game hinges on whether they get enough for the first downs on the close calls.
If the Colts DE's use their spin moves primarily to the inside of the tackles, then the lanes will be closed a little more often, and the Bears' backs go for only 50-70 yds each.
Final score: 27-23, with the team with the nice-guy minority coach winning it all. ;^)
The Pats only ran the ball SIX times in the last 37:30 of the game. Bellichick decided to get in a shoot-out with Manning, rather than deny him the ball. (The Colts had 5 drives in the 4th Qtr in that game... they had 6 in the entire game against the Texans in week 16.) Lovie Smith will NOT put Rex in a shoot-out in this game, if he can help it.
In their past two games, Indy beat the #1 NFL defense, and then #2. Why is #3 the big hurdle?
Note: Rex Grossman hasn't faced a Top Twelve defense since November, and has not played outside of Chicago since Christmas.
They beat the Chargers in San Diego in perfect weather, they beat the Patriots at home in Indy under the dome ... perfect conditions. They play the Bears in the rain on Sunday ... the Bears defense will love it and their offense will get the job done.
Florida rains usually are brief... but voluminous. It will probably be enough to be a huge factor in the game, dagnabbit.
But your point was the the Colts couldn't handle the Bears "D". The rain will surely benefit the bears runnin ggame far more than it will help their defense.
Well I got it half right ... it was only a few seconds after I hit the post tab that it occurred to me ... Patriots vs. Chargers in San Diego and the Colts/Ravens at Baltimore.
Really don't have a dog in this fight ... I'm foremost a Bronco fan, with the Bengals coming in second ... so I should be firmly behind the Colts ... however, I believe the Bears will prevail in Sunday's Super Bowl.
I dreamed that the Bears
will not only win, but win
SO BIG everyone
will say that the Colts
embarrassed themselves out there.
The dream felt quite real . . .
You got it! I will switch my pick to the Colts so the Bears can win! :)
Started out great and then the last few weeks of the season, teams that should have won lost and my overall picks went down, down, down!
"My prediction is that this Super Bowl will have the lowest viewer rating in the last ten years."
Wrong.
(This, of course, is due to the tremendous loss of Tommie Harris. The Colts lost both their starting DT's in the first few weeks of the season, and were able to drop a 2nd rounder in this draft to pick a Booger... DT McFarland from Tampa.)
Bears 24, Colts 10. Manning hurt by blitzing Bears
Colts in a runaway. PEyton Manning will have the eyes of the Bears defense dilating by halftime with some of the vaunted defense going into convulsions.
"My prediction is that this Super Bowl will have the lowest viewer rating in the last ten years."
Don't quit your day job.
Super Bowl Draws 3rd-Largest U.S. TV Audience Ever
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-05T235610Z_01_N05484005_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUPERBOWL-RATINGS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
Not a bad prediction at all LOL
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